Improvement in machines poe peeling willow



l @l1-titan faire atwt @fitta GEORGE HEALEY, OE EAST WOBURN, .M-SSAGHUSETTS. hemmen: No, 62,629, dated Mai-0h 5, 1867;

TMPBVEMENT IN lll[AGHll.\l]ilS FOB. FEELING WILLOW.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALLl COME:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HEALEY, of East Woburiuin the county of Middlesex, and State of MassaA chnsetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for RemovingA the Bark from Willow Twigs; and I do hereby declare the same to be vfully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which v Figure 1 is a top view; and

Figure 2, a sidefelevation of it.

Figure 3 is atransversc section taken through one set of the stripping jaws-of. the machine.

Willowtwigs employed in the manufacture ofv baskets or various other articles, are required to be divested of their bark before being put inuse. My machine is intended for thev accomplishment of this effect, and may be thus described:

In the drawings, A and B are two wheels mounted on two horizontal shafts, G D, whose journals are sup-l ported in bearings formed inlor applied to four standards, E E, F F, arranged as represented. Between the two Wheels are two posts or standards, G Gr, each of which serves to support three horizontal guide-rollers, at l1 c or dej', arranged, as represented, by dotted circles in iig. 2. An endless crossed belt, H, goes around the two wheels and about the guide-rollers in manner as shown in iigs. 1 and 2.. Each of the uprights is provided with a deiector, I or K, which is a plate arranged obliquely at an angleof forty-l'ive degrees` to the vertical plane fof the endlessA belt, and in otherrespects lwith the said belt, in manner as represented in the draws ings. To each of the wheels A B there is-a setof stripping jaws,'leach set of them being placed near its wheel and between it and the next adjacpnt standard Gr, and being supported in one of two stationary frames L L, upheld by the wheel-supporting standards E E, F F. Each pair of the jaws is composed, as shown in fig. 3, of a stationary bar or jaw, M, and a movable jaw or bar, N. The said jaw N is placed directly underneath the jaw M and upheld at or near both of its ends by a pair of springs, O 0, which are arranged on a movable bar, P, provided with screws, R R, for effecting its elevation or depressionin order to increase or diminish the pressure of the springs on the lower of the jaws. A lever, S, applied to the jaw-i`rame, and having its shorter arto resting on the movable jaw at or near one end of it, constitutes a. means by which ,an attendant on the machine is enabled'to depress the lower jaw preparatory to and for the insertion of ye. twigvof willow between the two jaws, and with its but or end extending into the bite of the-:endless belt and next contiguous wheel, A or B.' To each of the .jaws of the wheel B I apply a lip, T, of Indiarubber, or otherequivalent, it being arranged as exhibited in gs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, and being for the purpose of facilitating the removal of the bark from the`body ofthe twig. On' the wheel A being put in revolution inthe directionindicated by the arrow U marked thereon,'movements will be imparted to the endless belt and the other wheel in the directions denoted by the arrows marked thereon. Under these circumstances, if a twig ofwillow be placed but end foremost between the stripping jaws of the wheel A, and so that the said end of the twig shall enter the bite of the wheel and the endless belt, all rthat part of the twig extending-from the jaws tfo the bit'e will not be acted on or stripped of bark by the jaws during an advance of the twig 4caused bythe action ,of the wheel and belt. The other wheel and its jaws become a convenient addition for effecting the strippingI of the part so una'cted on. The wheel A and the belt willdraw'the twig along between ythe stripping jaws, which, by their pressure on the bark, will crack it and separate it from the body of the twig, which, on being forced against the next deilector, I, will lie-ejected thereby on a curve at, or about at, right angles with the plane of the belt; thus,- another workman standing on the side of the belt on which the twig is so thrown oli', will find the twig reversed, its smaller end being foremost to him. He is next to seize the twig by such end and pass it between the other set of jaws and their elastic lips and into the bite of the wheel B and the endless belt;` The twig will; next be drawn between the last-mentioned jaws and their lips, which will not only remove the balance of the haria-but will wipe' oli` any moisture or extraneous matter adhering to the surface of the twig. On the twig being forced against the deiiector K, it will be deiiected thereby so as to be out` of the way of the attendant who may be iirst applying the twigs to the machine.

single machine, composed of one wheel, an endless belt, its supporting rollers, a set of the stripping jaws, and' a deilector, may be used to perform the operations necessary to-the'removal of the'en'tire bark from the twig; but with the compound machine, composed of'the single endless crossed belt ond its supportingrollors, the two sets of jews, and the two wheels and the deeotors, nrronged os set forth,'the operations canbe carried on ivith much greater expedition and less consumption of poorer,` ns both of the wheels may be driven by the single belt and the power applied to the shaft of one of such wheels.

What Iolaim es m'y invention, therefore, is ns follows:

I claim the combination of al single wheel, a. set of stripping jaws, and on endless belt, its-supporting rollers,

anda dedeotor, the Whole being substantially as described and forA the purpose set forth.

I also claim the combination of the two elastic or flexible' lips, with the single wheel, n. set of stripping jews,

and an endless belt, its supporting rollers and deiiector, as described.

' GEORGE HEALEY. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

